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Greenland’s UK date of doom announced! Watch the trailer now

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Finally Gerard Butler’s excellent disasteroid / cometastrophe film Greenland has a UK release date. The Amazon Exclusive is out on Prime Video on 5 February – and it’s the perfect pandemic distraction, if like me your first movie watch when Lockdown 1.0 loomed last spring was Contagion. The film follows John Garrity (Butler), his wife… Greenland’s UK date of doom announced! Watch the trailer now Read More

TV review: The Crown, season 4, plus episode recaps

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Read my series review below, or full episode recaps here: episode 1 (Gold Stick),  episode 2 (The Balmoral Test), episode 3 (Fairytale), episode 4 (Favourites), episode 5 (Fagan), episode 6 (Terra Nullius), episode 7 (The Hereditary Principle), episode 8 (48:1), episode 9 (Avalanche), and episode 10 (War). Tracing a decade of royal, political and worldwide events – from the assassination of Earl Mountbatten,… TV review: The Crown, season 4, plus episode recaps Read More

Gerard Butler is BACK as Banning: fourth installment announced

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Is 2020 finally cutting us some slack? They say good things come in threes, and what a week this has been. First Biden / Harris win the US election. Then a COVID-19 vaccine is announced. And now… there’s a new Has Fallen film. Okay so not always in threes, as this is Gerard Butler’s fourth… Gerard Butler is BACK as Banning: fourth installment announced Read More

BLOG: The Songbird trailer that’s getting people tweeting

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What movies does one watch during a pandemic? Brilliant classics? Dumb comedies? Brilliant comedies? Films about, um, pandemics? There has been a lot of chatter this week on social media about upcoming thriller Songbird, a romantic thriller made during the pandemic and envisaging a world in a few years’ time where the COVID situation has… BLOG: The Songbird trailer that’s getting people tweeting Read More

BLOG: epic trolling as the film club watches Beowulf & Grendel

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This is by no means the first fantasy starring Gerard Butler that I’ve enjoyed but I think it’s the first I’ve seen on screen. My Good-Bad Film Club companion Liz adores Game of Thrones, and Beowulf & Grendel – which came out in 2005 – is surely its precursor. I’m always behind the zeitgeist and… BLOG: epic trolling as the film club watches Beowulf & Grendel Read More

BLOG: ‘Allo ‘Allo: the film club watches Overlord…

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Sorry but if you set a WW2 film in a French village or town, Brits of a certain age will see every blond Nazi officer as Herr Flick. Naming the film’s hero Boyce also means that unfortunately many of us will immediately think BOYCIE! (hehehehehehehe). Which is a shame as Boyce is a topnotch hero:… BLOG: ‘Allo ‘Allo: the film club watches Overlord… Read More

BLOG: You’re having a lava! The Good-Bad Film Club watches Dante’s Peak

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This week on the Good-Bad Film Club we watched Dante’s Peak, which – despite me seeing it in the cinema when it came out 23 years ago – I have always believed to be called Volcano. It turns out there was a Volcano film, which came out shortly after. Similar films often come in pairs:… BLOG: You’re having a lava! The Good-Bad Film Club watches Dante’s Peak Read More

BLOG: The Good-Bad Film Club chews over The Cured

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I do feel sorry for directors, making their metaphorical movies, only to find them hijacked at the merest mention of a lockdown, virus, or toilet roll shortage. This week’s Good-Bad Film Club watch, The Cured, is set in Ireland after a virus called Maze, now cured, has left the authorities with thousands of ex-zombies to… BLOG: The Good-Bad Film Club chews over The Cured Read More

BLOG: doggedly searching

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This was a search term used to get to my site today, and really a filmmaker needs to make a movie with this title: I can see it now: a hugely rich American family employ a mysterious man with a slightly over-the-top English accent to serve their pampered pooches. Then he disappears, taking their favourite… BLOG: doggedly searching Read More

BLOG: Law Abiding Citizen gives us the People’s Choice Hannibal Lecter

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Killing with abandon, he doesn’t even leave his prison cell. And while all Clyde Shelton munches is the scenery and a decent steak, he does then murder his cell-mate with the bone. It was another Good-Bad Film Club evening last night, and I’ll not lie, this one – chosen purely for Gerard Butler – was… BLOG: Law Abiding Citizen gives us the People’s Choice Hannibal Lecter Read More

BLOG: Once more unto the seats, dear friends! How safe is safe enough?

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Every release is a risk, and there’s always the fear that a misguided decision to re-issue Cats could ruin UK cinema for ever. Have you been back to the cinema yet? I have, though not nearly to the extent that I used to go. Partly this is due to the lack of films I want… BLOG: Once more unto the seats, dear friends! How safe is safe enough? Read More